I've been noticing that many times when trying to view a manpage there doesn' seem to be a listing for that app.I just built a package and was testing it today. The manpage for the app was in /usr/share/man. I went to see if it was indeed there and it was, along with many, many others. I did a

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echo $MANPATH

and /usr/share/man wasn't included. I updated the path in a console like this

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export MANPATH=$MANPATH:/usr/share/man

and it worked.

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man xscreensaver

works now, but didn't in the past. Where in the system is this path set/appended? I'd like to fix it so I don't have to reset it each time I open up a console?

By default, configure scripts set the manpages to be installed either to /usr/share/man or /usr/local/man, so unless you specifically use the --mandir flag, the manpages will normally always end up in the wrong place.